FOREST, L^KE, AND RIVER 



While at the United States Hatchery at Nashua, 

 New Hampshire, I was enabled to study a fine lot of 

 splendid specimens of the Montana grayling, and 

 personally I am delighted that ere long we shall 

 find this grayling in many of our New England 

 streams. If this can be accomplished, and certain 

 laws enacted to govern their taking, the anglers 

 will not only have a fish that will give variety to 

 the usual experiences, but one well worthy of their 

 best skill. Not alone this, — the best months will 

 be late in the season, — September, October, and 

 November. If then laws will be enacted making 

 the open season from September to December, the 

 sportsman will find that he can combine fishing 

 with his hunting, and our fly book will not be 

 laid away in its camphor-perfumed home quite 

 as soon. 



So far, success is making itself more and more 

 marked in raising these fish in the hatcheries, and, 

 in my belief, it will not be many years before, with 

 the right sort of protection and planting, we shall 

 have our fill of a new pleasure, in the taking of 

 these beautiful grayling at the season in which 

 their game-like qualities are at the best. Think 

 of all the charm that will come when the air 

 is crisp and clear, and the autumn colors touch 

 the landscape with a resplendent beauty all their 



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